Typhloiulus strictus (Latzel, 1882)

Julus strictus Latzel, 1882

Iulus (Mastigoiulus) strictus: Attems 1895 Typhloiulus strictus inferus Verhoeff, 1907 Typhloiulus strictus infossus Verhoeff, 1907 Typhloiulus (Typhloiulus) strictus: Strasser 1962 Typhloiulus strictus: Strasser 1962

Typhloiulus staregai Strasser, 1973: 28 –30, figs 38–40, syn. n.

Material. Typhloiulus strictus var. inferus, 1 ♀ syntype (ZMB), Verh., ZMB 12309, Siebenbuergen [= Transylvania, Romania], 5.IV.08; ZMB 13094 slide: gonopods, penis, leg-pairs 1 and 2.

Descriptive notes. Male leg-pair 1 with a barely visible tarsal remnant. Male leg-pair 2 with a well-developed adhesive pad on tibia, without pad or other modifications on postfemur and femur.

Distribution. This relatively widespread species occurs in the northern and eastern parts of Serbia (Makarov et al. 2004), the South Carpathians in Romania (Tabacaru 2003) and in two isolated caves in northwest Bulgaria (Vagalinski & Stoev 2007).

Remarks. Strasser (1973) described T. staregai on the basis of a single, apparently juvenile male. The original drawings of the holotype clearly show an unmodified leg-pair 1 and very small, incompletely developed gonopods, with the opisthomere apically not differentiated into a velum and a solenomere. Besides this, certain characters lead us to assume that the specimen in question is conspecific with T. strictus, viz., the shape of pleurotergum 7 and the very prominent intermediate lamella of the opisthomere, which are characteristic of this species. Another piece of evidence for the synonymy of T. staregai with T. strictus is the fact that both were recorded from caves in the vicinity of v. Salash, Vidin District, in close proximity to the Bulgarian–Serbian border. Hence, the following synonymy is proposed here: T. staregai Strasser, 1973 = T. strictus (Latzel, 1882) syn. n.